People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.

Originals cost more than imitations.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

The hand is the tool of tools.

Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!

Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.

No one comes to your website to be entertained. They have questions they think you can answer. Content answers questions.

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.